Most smiles are started by another smile.

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

If you haven't time to help youngsters find the right way in life, somebody with more time will help them find the wrong way.

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

A valuable friend is one who'll tell you what you should be told, even if it offends you.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.

Love opens the most impossible gates in the world.

The world outside the window is beautiful only if you try to find beauty in those what you see

A ring is a halo on your finger.

Dreams are nothing more than wishes and a wish is just a dream you wish to come true.

I adore food and always have.

My guilty pleasure is Simon & Garfunkel. I'm embarrassed about it. They're dorky.

The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.

People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.